Comet Me Sabro
Melvin Brewing

Draft at Homestead. Hazy, pale golden pour, thin ring of head. Light my fruity, citrusy aroma, hoppy towards the back, signs of ABV. Taste is a big hoppy mouthful, piney dank, citrus. Resiny, oily. Full, nice.

 

Review 1718
Comet Me Sabor
Melvin Brewing
Double IPA
Date: 27 Oct 2021
Interesting name for a beer; it is supposed to be a play on words. Using a tulip glass and I served the beer around 40 degrees. The pour created a foamy and airy two-fingered head with excellent retention. The slow dissipation left gobs of bright white lacing on the glass. The color charts around SRM 6, golden yellow hues. The clarity is clear with a few carbonation bubbles dancing lazily within. The appearance of the beer is above average. 4.75
Nosing the beer, I first get coconut, grass, straw, and a touch of citrus. After a few more attempts at smelling what is in the glass, I detected sweet malts, yeast, earthiness, floral, and a touch of phenols. I am not getting the explosion of pina colada, I sense it, but it is not overpowering.
The pina colada comes through on the first taste. Sipping more, I taste orange peels, sweet bread, lightly toasted malts, a touch of herbal, floral esters, grass, and earthiness.
The mouthfeel is tannic. The body is medium-plus, the carbonation is medium, and a lasting finish.
The pina colada, grass, and orange flavors make for an intriguing combination. I would not put this as one of my favorite beers from Melvin. Call me old fashion but, I prefer Thor to this beer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

one of the most striking and delicious melvin beers in recent memory, which is really a compliment because all their hoppy stuff is gold. this one is exceptional, a somewhat unlikely hop combination with comet and sabro, but smart and cohesive, they sure work well together! love the name too. i get an almost noble profile from the comet, highly herbal, dried grassy and tea-like, with subtle floral undertones and some higher alpha bitterness peaking through too. the sabro is more robust though, nose and taste alike, or maybe just stands out more because its so distinctive, but for me its coconut, lime, tangerine, and green grape, really fresh and bold without being green or bitey in the least, not overdone, not even close, and its got some full spectrum depth, both fruity and dry hoppy and also a little grassy and bitter to close, i like having it both ways. no onion character either, which sometimes can creep in the the sabro. i get some honey and some light sweetness from the grain base, good body but out of the way for the most part, supportive but not interfering with the hops, smartly built, majorly modern, but also timeless in a way, the quality and freshness are epic, and there are all kinds of amazing flavor wrinkles as it comes up to temperature from mango to chardonnay to dried herbs, white pepper, and resinous weed. i loved everything about this, and would rate it among the best beers melvin has ever produced. this was fabulously good, i cant wait for the cans to come around!